劉向 Liu Xiang (77-6 BCE), a descendant of a younger brother of
Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, was in and out of office during his official career. At one time he was almost executed, but he later rose to high rank within the imperial palace. The biographical entry here mentions his writings on qin but does not directly say that he himself played it.

Liu Xiang is known mainly as a bibliographer and anecdotal historian, but he was also a poet and writer of prose lamentations. The following works attributed to him are mentioned here and/or elsewhere on this site:

列女傳 Lienü Zhuan (Biographies of Exemplary Women; compiled 16 BCE;
original text;
Wiki)
7Good online intro at China Knowledge. Also romanized as Lie Nü Zhuan, as with the
illustrated Chinese edition made available online by the China Text Project. The entire book has been translated by Anne Behnke Kinney in her Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienü Zhuan of Liu Xiang (NY, Columbia University Press, 2014); she translates the actual book title as "Categorized Biographies of Women", saying "列 lie" can mean "illustrious" as well as "categorized" but that Liu Xiang himself generally uses the word in the latter meaning. The original is said to have had 125 entries but the surviving edition (from the Song dynasty) has only 124, missing one from the first section.

The biographies listed below do not themselves all mention the qin, the connections sometimes coming from elsewhere. The relevant biographies8 include:

In addition, 魯母師 Mother-Teacher of Lu (Scroll 1 #12) is mentioned elsewhere in connection with a possible early name for
hui.

列仙傳 Liexian Zhuan (Biographies of Exemplary Immortals; original text;
Wiki)
9Also romanized as Lie Xian Zhuan, as with the version made available online by the China Text Project; while the Lienü Zhuan is said ot have been written by Liu Xiang, he is credited only with having compiled and/or edited the exisiting Liexian Zhuan. This version, like most, has 70 entries. People mentioned on this site who have biographies in it include the following (seven of these biographies themselves mention the qin; otherwise the connection comes from elsewhere):

Liu Xiang, style name Zizheng, was a great Confucian during Han dynasty. He wrote Qin Chuan and (Qin) Song. (Liu) Xiang had great learning from numerous books, so what he wrote was very thorough. That I have not been able to see any of this is a great pity! Some say that Yang Xiong actually wrote
Qin Qing Ying, but today that seems to be completely lost.

Scroll 8 is called Xu Lienü Zhuan (續列女傳 Continuation of LXZ). Its 20 entries are said to have been added after Liu Xiang, but the general attributation of the rest to Liu Xiang has also been questioned.
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